Dolores Castro
Dolores Castro Varela (12 April 1923 – 30 March 2022) was a Mexican poet, narrator, essayist and literary critic.
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Dolores Castro

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- Name
- Dolores Castro
- Born
- 12 April 1923
- Birthplace
- Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes, Mexico
- Died
- 30 March 2022
- Occupation
- * Poet
- Education
- * Complutense University of Madrid
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Honours
- National Prize for Arts and Sciences
- Languages
- Spanish
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Dolores Castro Varela (12 April 1923 – 30 March 2022) was a Mexican poet, narrator, essayist and literary critic.
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• Name — Dolores Castro • Born — 12 April 1923 • Birthplace — Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes, Mexico • Died — 30 March 2022 • Occupation — * Poet • narrator • essayist • literary critic • Education — * Complutense University of Madrid • National Autonomous University of Mexico
Career
Career
Castro was a professor of literature at institutions such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) and Escuela de Periodismo Carlos Septién García. She was a founder of the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán at UNAM. She was a founder of Radio UNAM and producer of radio shows. She also hosted the program Poetas de México on Canal 11 with Alejandro Avilés, and collaborated in the direction of Cultural Diffusion of the university. She served as editor-in-chief and contributor to Barcos de Papel and Poesía de América magazines. She was a member of the editorial board of Summa Bibliographical, Fuensanta, The Word and The Man, Level, Poetry of America, Bibliographic Sum, and the literary magazine of the UIA.
Poems
Poems
• El corazón transfigurado, 1949 • Dos nocturnos, 1952 • Siete poemas, 1952 • La tierra está sonando, 1959 • Cantares de vela, 1960 • Soles, 1977 • Qué es lo vivido, 1980 • Las palabras, 1990 • Poemas inéditos, 1990 • No es el amor el vuelo, 1992 • Tornasol, 1997 • Sonar en el silencio, 2000 • Oleajes, 2003 • Íntimos huéspedes, 2004 • Algo le duele al aire, 2011 • Viento quebrado, poesía reunida, 2011 • El corazón transfigurado/The Transfigured Heart, 2013 • Sombra domesticada, 2013 • Pozo de Luz, Poetazos, 2013 • Algo le duele al aire/ Something Pains the Wind, 2015
Novel
Novel
• La ciudad y el viento, 1962
Essay
Essay
• Dimensión de la lengua en su función creativa, emotiva y esencial, 1989
Anthologies
Anthologies
• Obras completas, 1991 • Antología poética en francés, 2003 • A mitad de un suspiro, 2008 • La vida perdurable, antología poética

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Aguascalientes City.
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Mexico City.
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Awards and honors
She won the National Prize for Poetry of Mazatlan in 1980. In 2014 she won the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in the Literature and Linguistics category. In 2008, the INBA paid her a tribute for her 85 years of life, and in 2014, the INBA paid tribute to her with the editorial presentation Dolores Castro, 90 years old: word and time. Castro was part of the group Eight Mexican Poets, which also included Alejandro Avilés, Roberto Cabral del Hoyo, Javier Peñalosa, Honorato Magaloni Duarte, Efrén Hernández, Octavio Novaro and Rosario Castellanos.
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- 1.Muere la poeta mexicana Dolores Castro Varela.
- 2.“Viento quebrado, poesía reunida”,la nueva publicación de Dolores Castro.
- 3.Dolores Castro 90 años. Palabra y tiempo / Palacio de Bellas Artes - Sala Manuel M. Ponce.
- 4.Castro, Dolores [Semblanza] - Ocho poetas.
- 5.Avilés, Alejandro.
- 6.Paso de la memoria, reunión de la poesía de Javier Peñalosa Calderón.
- 7.INBA. Coordinación Nacional de Literatura. Dolores Castro.
- 8.Secretaría de Educación Pública. Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes de México. Histórico galardonados: Dolores Castro Varela.
- 9.Dan a conocer nombre de ganadores del Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes 2014.
- 10.UAA otorga el Doctorado Honoris causa a la poeta Dolores Castro, el químico Alfonso Romo de Vivar y el historiador Aurelio de los Reyes García Rojas.
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